UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Vale, NC, USA

Bright white light at low altitude moving extremely fast from SE to NW No sound. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-01
Where
Vale, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
36.097, -81.945 · exact
Slug
light-over-vale-nc-2016-89aca6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Vale, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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